Problems setting up network.

[AHopwood]

Hi,

This is my first time setting up and using Linux, and I'm having problems setting up both my ethernet and wireless networking. My ethernet card is Atheros AR8161/8165 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.20), and my wifi card is an Intel(R) Centrino(R) Wireless-N2200. I started working on trying to configure the wifi card first. I searched on intellinuxwireless.org for the proper drivers. I then manually copied the iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode into the /lib/firmware directory. After doing that, I tried configuring my network and received the message : "Unabe to find network interface for selected device (using iwlwifi driver). "

Any help would be appreciated. Also, let me know if you need anymore information.

Thanks.

[RoyD]

Did you try going to MCC, Network & Internet, Set up a new network Interface...?

[AHopwood]

Hello,

Yes, I did. I entered the MCC and tried the"Set up a new network interface (LAN, ISDN, ADSL, ...) button. It then prompts for the type of connection, which I chose the Wireless button. I then have two options, "Intel Corporation Device 0891" and "Use a Windows driver (with ndiswrapper)". I've selected all of the options. I downloaded the driver from Intel's website, and still I receive the message "Unable to find network interface for selected device (using iwlwifi driver). Is there anything I need to do differently? I tried using the Windows drivers that were supplied with my laptop as well.

Thanks.

[Ken-Bergen]

"Unabe to find network interface for selected device (using iwlwifi driver). "

That message needs rewording.
What it means is that the driver you're giving ndiswrapper doesn't match your hardware.

[AHopwood]

What it means is that the driver you're giving ndiswrapper doesn't match your hardware.

I tried the drivers supplied with my PC, using both Windows 7 and XP versions of the driver, along with both 32 and 64 bit.

Also, I get that message when using the Linux drivers from Intel's site, and I've used the version for my specific adapter, and another one that is said to be missing in a popup message.

Is there something I'm doing wrong when trying to use the Windows drivers? I use the ndiswrapper on the dll. I'm not sure what else needs to be done.

[RoyD]

Lets go back a step Under MCC , Software Management, Configure media sources Do you have the non-free repository enabled? It needs to be.
Also under Install and remove software the options should be all and all to find this software. Then type in wifi. Does this help?

[Ken-Bergen]

Going back to your first post.

I'm having problems setting up both my ethernet and wireless networking.

I take that to mean you have no internet connection on this machine?

[AHopwood]

I take that to mean you have no internet connection on this machine?

Yes, anything I've downloaded and tried to use has been done on my desktop machine running Windows and has been transferred via a flash drive. I don't have a wired or wireless connection.

Lets go back a step Under MCC , Software Management, Configure media sources Do you have the non-free repository enabled? It needs to be.
Also under Install and remove software the options should be all and all to find this software. Then type in wifi. Does this help?

OK, I'll try that when I get home from work. I definitely didn't do anything that is similar to that.

[AHopwood]

Lets go back a step Under MCC , Software Management, Configure media sources Do you have the non-free repository enabled? It needs to be.
Also under Install and remove software the options should be all and all to find this software. Then type in wifi. Does this help?

Firstly, I checked MCC and I have no option to enable the non-free repository; the only thing that comes up there is the live Mageia disk I used for installation. I have no other options.

Secondly, I can't find the software because I have no internet connection whatsoever. Even with trying to install drivers, my ethernet card is unrecognized, and that's why I am trying to use my wifi card first, so I can at least always connect wirelessly.

Now for an update, I used a USB wifi adapter to try to connect that way. The device is recognized, and I can get to the point to set up the network, but the network is shown as unlisted and has to be set up manually. Now another problem arises; even after setting up the network, I receive an error message saying that either there's a problem with my configuration, router, or modem. Any thoughts on that? I think if I can get the USB wifi adapter working, I may be able to install the packages to fix the other issues I am having. Are there packages I can download and transfer using a flash drive to necessary directories to help set up either of my wireless adapters?

Thanks for the help.

[RoyD]

I am presuming you are using KDE. Connect to the router using the wired cable. Ensure you are running DHCP on the NIC. Can you ping 127.0.0.1 under a terminal session, if not then a faulty NIC card, if yes can ping your router? If not I wonder if you have some Firewall/Router rules preventing this NIC to connect to the router?

[AHopwood]

Ensure you are running DHCP on the NIC. Can you ping 127.0.0.1 under a terminal session, if not then a faulty NIC card, if yes can ping your router?

Just a quick update on that comment. I'm not sure what you mean exactly by faulty, but I can use an ethernet connection without a problem in Windows.

Edit: Another update, using an ethernet connection I can ping 127.0.0.1, but if I try and configure an ethernet connection it says there is no device found for that connection type. Also, I cannot ping my router.

[RoyD]

If you cannot ping 127.0.0.1 it would be a good chance the NIC is faulty or more extreme the motherboard but you can ping 127.0.0.1 under Mageia, this means the NIC is connected and good. I guess you have tried MCC, Hardware, Browse and config and MCC, Network and Internet, Setup up new connection, does it see the NIC? Like myself I have come from Windows a couple of years ago, so its a learning curve but I love it. I think we are going to need some help from more experienced Linux people here to help soon.

[isadora]

~topic moved to "Networking"

[AHopwood]

If you cannot ping 127.0.0.1 it would be a good chance the NIC is faulty or more extreme the motherboard but you can ping 127.0.0.1 under Mageia, this means the NIC is connected and good. I guess you have tried MCC, Hardware, Browse and config and MCC, Network and Internet, Setup up new connection, does it see the NIC? Like myself I have come from Windows a couple of years ago, so its a learning curve but I love it. I think we are going to need some help from more experienced Linux people here to help soon.

Thanks for the help. The NIC hasn't been seen in any form on the machine. I'm not sure if possibly my cards aren't supported because my PC was released recently. Everything runs fine in Windows. So I know they aren't faulty.

~topic moved to "Networking"

Thanks, I didn't even see that there were subforums for the first few days! It's sad, I know.

[AHopwood]

Well, I switched to using gnome, and my wireless worked right after installing the OS. I'm not sure what really changed to make it work; I hope learning to use Linux will help me understand these things in the fututre.

Thanks for the help.

-Andrew